I don’t like to solder. Nor am I very good at it, despite having soldered loads of boards. The temperamental solder never seems to flow where I want it. Surface-mount soldering in particular used to scare me enough that I didn’t even…
What do small scale open hardware projects do about RF interference compliance testing? I’ve been looking into selling assembled versions of a few of my projects like the Backwoods Logger, to people without the time or skill to build their…
Watch this video on YouTube Exciting news on the Classic Macintosh Floppy Disk Emulator: I successfully transferred two sectors from a virtual 800K floppy disk, and used it to boot a Mac Plus to the “Happy Mac” screen. This proves…
A couple of months ago, I posted a design sketch for an SD-card floppy disk drive emulator for classic Macintosh computers. Recently I finally got motivated enough to start building it. Using one of the oh-so-rare DB-19 connectors that I purchased a…
The ARM Cortex M3 has generated lots of buzz lately. Maybe you’ve been working with Arduinos, AVRs, or PICs for a while, and heard about the Cortex M3, but weren’t sure what it was all about or whether it was even relevant to…
My newest design is a PC downloader utility called blsync, created as part of the Backwoods Logger project. BLsync is a command line program with a corresponding hardware adapter, and it enables snapshot lists and temperature / altitude / pressure graphs to…
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